Layer/Button Problem

[TylerDurdn]

I am currently working on a map which displays all 50 states. On mouseover the
name of the state displays and on release on the state it expands over the 50
states and shows different cities where our offices are as buttons. When you
click on the button the info pops up. However if you click off a button just
on the bg of the expanded state it will automatically open the state behind it.
So i need to know how to make them seperate... So you have to close the
expanded state before allowing any other state to automatically open. Its just
frustrating if you miss the city button and another state pops up. Any ideas?
I'm pretty new to all of this. So please be detailed.

[nardove]

try this, when you click a button(state) make all the other button visible
property false, doing this will make that all the other buttons disapear, and
when you closes that state make all visible true again

[TylerDurdn]

That would be difficult considering sometimes i only cover half of the states. So making it not visible would leave a white blank and would look awkword. Any other ideas?

[nardove]

use the buttons just for hit, doing this you can use the same button for
everithing and if all the states have an animation use tellTarget in the
buttons to activate the animations, now you can use _visible false and every
will look fine